Interview with filmmaker Ester Martin Bergsmark on SOMETHING MUST BREAK - FRED Film Radio

Ester Martin Bergsmark, Director, Co-Screenwriter and Editor, Something Must Break.

Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition.

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What is your film about? - "I wanted to tell a love story I believed in so I wanted to make a chemistry driven story, not a plot driven story. I wanted to show both the feeling of getting the butterflies in the stomach and a really hard punch in the stomach [...]"

How did you balance the love and the sex in the film? - "My favourite sex scene in the film is when the two main characters have sex for the first time, and by that point they haven't even kissed yet. So they are exploring each other. It's such a beautiful and innocent scene, when you are in love and when you want to explore another person. Sex here is not just a cherry on the top. Sex is part of the story and it is included in a very organic way [...]"

LISTEN TO THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE ->https://goo.gl/f63Q7O<-

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Filmmaker Ester Martin Bergsmark talks to FRED about his film SOMETHING MUST BREAK (Nånting måste gå sönder), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam.

‘It should smell of strong emotions’, Bergsmark has said of his debut. And it does, this love story set in Stockholm in summer, between androgynous Sebastian (who likes to dress as ‘superwoman’ Ellie) and Andreas, who is not gay. Together against the smoothed-over, blunted IKEA society.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.